Anything that challenges the traditional way of doing things, rejecting boundaries between high and low forms of art, rejecting rigid genre distinctions, emphasizing pastiche, parody, intertextuality, irony, and playfulness. Postmodernism favours reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures...
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970s and 80s reaction against the rationalism and functionalism of modernism. It is either of two trends: one which reverts to more traditional, formal, even Classical approaches; the other seeks to go beyond art, form and meaning altogether, and favours works which are anarchic, outrageous or transitory. Post-modernism is closely identified with r …...
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